Name
Abstract | ||
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Oscillation of routes in the Internet causes unnecessary overhead. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) transactions collected from the MAE-East exchange point for 2000 (January-December) show that approximately 16% of routing overhead traffic exhibits oscillating Autonomous System paths. About 66% of these paths used extra, unnecessary hops to route data traffic resulting in up to 10% extra-hop count. Common characteristics are shown to exist in oscillating routes. Our findings demonstrate that long-theorized route oscillations really do occur in the Internet. Faulty implementations and/or poor policy choices are likely causes, where the currently specified method of BGP implicit withdrawals causes propagation through the Internet. To reduce oscillations, we propose a new method of forcing explicit withdrawals in BGP. Simulation experiments with forcing explicit withdrawals show an overall reduction of the transaction traffic, as well as a reduction in path length. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2003 | 10.1016/S0140-3664(02)00130-5 | Computer Communications |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Routing,Border Gateway Protocol,Route oscillation,Route flap damping | Default-free zone,Oscillation,Path length,Computer science,Computer network,Implementation,Border Gateway Protocol,Autonomous system (mathematics),Database transaction,The Internet,Distributed computing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
26 | 2 | Computer Communications |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.41 | 14 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vivian Elliott | 1 | 2 | 0.41 |
| Kenneth J. Christensen | 2 | 569 | 86.17 |